Furhad Khan

Furhad Khan is a British writer based in Berlin. In 2024 he was a Berlin Senate Literature Stipend recipient. He writes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He has published by 101words and Sìdhe Press. He is currently editing his first novel.

Portfolio

  • Event: Collecting Dreams Festival Hannover

    2025 Collecting Dreams Festival, Hannover

    Furhad Khan will participating in a reading and panel discussion with writers, Armin Wühle and Jara Nassar, at the Collecting Dreams Festival in Hannover on 13th September 2025.

    Furhad Khan for Collecting Dreams Festival.

  • Publication: Poetry

    2025, Sídhe Press

    Furhad Khan’s non-fiction poem, ‘Living Memory’, was published in an anthology, ‘To Lay Sun Into a Forest’, by Sidhe Press.

  • Publication: Flash Fiction

    2025, 101Words.org

    Furhad Khan’s short flash fiction piece, ‘Tether‘, was published by 101Words.

  • Event: Literature in the Languages of Berlin 2024

    2024, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

    A presentation evening at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin took place on Friday 23rd August 2024.

    Since 2018, the Berlin Senate has awarded scholarships to non-German language writers.

    Furhad Khan, among other awardees for 2024, presented his work along with a panel discussion with the juror’s involved in the selection process for this year’s Berlin Senate Scholarships awarded to writers based in Berlin.

    Berlin Literarisches Colloquium

  • Berlin Senate Non-German Literature Scholarship Awardee 2024

    The Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion awards to 15 authors living in Berlin working fellowships for literature in non-German language.

    Furhad Khan is one of 15 scholarship awardees along with: Barbaros F. Altuğ, Orhan Murat Bahtiyar, emet ezell, Angelica Freitas, Eduardo Halfon, Micheala Holt, Stefano Jorio, Avrina Jos Joslin Thambi, Pedro Kadivar, Anna Melikova, Marija Pavlovic, Oscar Perdomo, Jade Samson-Kermarrec, Qing Zhou.

    The independent jury had to decide on 277 applications this year. The applications were assessed by the following jury members:

    Irina Bondas, Hernán D. Caro, Leila Chammaa, Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Karolina Golimowska, Lea Hübner und Achim Wagner.

    Berlin Senate Culture Department
    Berlin Senate Culture Department

  • Prize: Shortlisted for W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2023

    2023, Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize

    Furhad Khan was named as a runner-up for the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2023. The judge, Kasim Ali, provided feedback on Khan’s submission, his work-in-progress novel, ‘The Drowned Bird’.

    ‘I really enjoyed the sample here, and I thought the dialogue was natural and worked very well. The writing really did pull me through and kept me wanting to read, and that’s a good quality to have as a writer, especially in this market.‘

    Kasim Ali, author of ‘Good Intentions’
    Writers & Artists Prize Working-Class Writer's Prize

  • Programme: Shortlisted for WriteNow by Penguin Random House

    Furhad Khan was one of 150 shortlisted writers from over 1,700 applicants for Penguin Random House’s WriteNow Programme 2017. He attended the Bristol Editor’s Workshop hosted by Alan Johnson, Bernadine Evaristo, and Kit de Waal.

    Penguin Write Now Live Bristol Event. Alan Johnson, Kit de Waal, Tom Weldon, Nadia Shireen, Susie Day, Bernardine Evaristo and Joe Earle, take part in an author panel at WriteNow Bristol
    Alan Johnson, Kit de Waal, Tom Weldon, Nadia Shireen, Susie Day, Bernardine Evaristo and Joe Earle, take part in an author panel at WriteNow Bristol